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...hero he is. But a man of so many pirouettes hardly inspires confidence as a resolute President. That should not surprise us. The very idea that national service, even heroic service, necessarily correlates with great presidential leadership is simply irrational. By that logic, Douglas MacArthur would have made a great President. By that logic, Ulysses S. Grant was a great President. (It's not just an American phenomenon: the most decorated veteran in Israel's history, Ehud Barak, was a disastrous Prime Minister.) Even more impressive is the fact that two of the greatest war Presidents in American history--Abraham...
...expert in international relations, Hehir helped orchestrate an effort among Catholic leaders to advocate nuclear disarmament in the early 1980s, winning a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant for his work...
People who need people are not just lucky; they may be healthier too. As part of the MacArthur Successful Aging Study, researchers examined more than 800 men and women in the context of their social networks and found that socially isolated men ages 70 to 79 appear to be at greater risk of heart disease than men with more robust social networks. The researchers looked at marital status, number of close friends and family members, and participation in social and religious clubs. Compared with men in the highest quartile on the social-network index, men in the lowest fourth...
...grant, awarded by the MacArthur Foundation, will finance a new study by the Digital Media Project that will explore five models designed principally to address issues of file-sharing. The project includes studies of financial, legal and technological approaches to the current crisis in the recording and motion picture industries caused by the ready availability of pirated media, particularly over peer-to-peer file sharing networks such as Morpheus and Kazaa...
Harvard’s presence on this year’s list of MacArthur Fellows wasn’t limited to faculty...